Did you miss the big TV news from TCA’s buzzy first week?

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Aug 2, 2018 at 10:07 AM

Tucked away in a frigid ballroom inside the The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, television journalists from across the country are being presented with new and returning series from nearly every major network as part of the annual Television Critics Association summer press tour.

For those outside the television news orbit, TCA is a nearly three-week sprint through Peak TV, where cast and creatives from television series headed to the small screen (and smaller streaming screens) in the fall go before TCA’s membership of critics, writers and columnists.

In the past week, Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Nat Geo, Discovery and Facebook have all taken their new projects to TCA, bringing with them a steady stream of news and insight into industry.

StarNews TV writer Hunter Ingram is in Los Angeles to cover the coming week’s presentations from ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, FX, Showtime and The CW. But before he reports back, here is everything you may have missed from the first week of TCA.Netflix, the king of flooding your queue with what seems like new shows every week, announced it will debut “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” on Oct. 26. The reboot of the “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” story is a much darker take on the world of the occult and stars Kieran S as the adolescent witch. It was announced the network’s trippy new limited series “Maniac,” starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, will also premiere Sept 21.

HBO is finally making that “Deadwood” movie it’s been teasing since what seems like the end of the 19th century. The movie, which starts shooting in October, will be a continuation of the premium network’s brutal series about the rise and fall of a South Dakota mining town. The series starred Ian McShane and Timothy Olyphant, who are said to be returning along with other former co-stars.

Julia Roberts spoke about her new Amazon series “Homecoming,” which will premiere Nov. 2. Based on the popular podcast, the series will be the actress’ first series regular role, which she described as “a great mental challenge every day.”Screen legend Rita Moreno, who appeared Sunday with her delightful Netflix sitcom reboot “One Day At a Time,” will be honored with this year’s TCA Lifetime Achievement Award at Saturday’s awards ceremony. The multi-hyphenate talent will be in attendance for the ceremony, which will also honor “Friends” with the Heritage Award.

When it wasn’t singing the praises of its mammoth Emmy nominee “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Amazon teased what could be its next major project, “The Romanoffs,” the follow-up series from “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner. The anthology series, about people who believe they are descendants of the titular Russian royal family, stars a litany of familiar faces including Diane Lane, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery and Kathryn Hahn. It premieres Oct. 12.

AMC went on a renewal spree, handing a fifth season to “Better Call Saul” and a fourth to “Fear the Walking Dead.” It also handed an order to “Dispatches From Elsewhere,” an anthology series created by and starring “How I Met Your Mother” alum Jason Segel.

—Hunter Ingram writes for the WIlmington (N.C.) Star-News. He can be reached at 910-343-2327 or Hunter.Ingram@StarNewsOnline.com.